Who's counting anyway? Even 300 is 295 more than you need to turn all critical cities in the US (or most any other industrialized nation) into glass parking lots. Anything else is just overkill.

Besides, what motive would they have to use them? Attack any UN/NATO ally, and the world rains death upon you. Attack us, and even if you survive the counterattack, you'll lose your biggest global customer, and still haven't received the previously mentioned death from above, sponsored by NATO.

Grand_Moff_Joseph:Who's counting anyway? Even 300 is 295 more than you need to turn all critical cities in the US (or most any other industrialized nation) into glass parking lots. Anything else is just overkill.

Besides, what motive would they have to use them? Attack any UN/NATO ally, and the world rains death upon you. Attack us, and even if you survive the counterattack, you'll lose your biggest global customer, and still haven't received the previously mentioned death from above, sponsored by NATO.

It would be much easier for them to say to us "xxxx trade concessions or we nuke japan and south korea, both who you're bound by treaty to defend,"

Obviously the only answer to this is to double or triple the US defence budget. In fact, I propose the Defence Department take ALL incoming revenue, and give back what they don't need. Oh ya, and invoke conscription again. But only the homeless and people making less than $250000 a year.

If China bombed the US, wouldn't China's economy cease to exist? They may "own" us, but we own all their "made in china" crap.. in fact, i think when i crap, its pre stamped "made in china". i'll have to check.

Brian Ryanberger:You obviously do not understand the Chicom hive mind which is bent on racial domination of the globe by nature's most perfect specimen: the Han Chinese. So perfect they come with a 3 inch dick.

I hope you mean soft otherwise I'm going to be really disappointed with the assimilation.

fusillade762:His team estimated that as many as 3,000 nuclear weapons could be hidden

They possibly maybe could conceivably have 3,000.EVERYBODY PANIC!

Someone else noticed that little chunk of high grade weasel language as well huh? So basically they're saying that they have *storage space* for ~3,000 warheads. That's like saying just because someone has a three car garage they for sure have 3 cars. There are quite a few other methods and metrics for working out a nations likely nuclear stockpile size. Also, do they have reasonable long range delivery systems for 3,000 warheads? What *kind* of warheads are we talking about? Big ass cold war 1 megaton city breakers? 250 kiloton counterforce Mirvs for ICBMs? Little dinky 5 kiloton tactical jobs? The PANIC! and durp in that article where far above normal US intel levels for wargarble.

deamonbutterfly:If China bombed the US, wouldn't China's economy cease to exist? They may "own" us, but we own all their "made in china" crap.. in fact, i think when i crap, its pre stamped "made in china". i'll have to check.

RobertBruce:Grand_Moff_Joseph: Who's counting anyway? Even 300 is 295 more than you need to turn all critical cities in the US (or most any other industrialized nation) into glass parking lots. Anything else is just overkill.

Besides, what motive would they have to use them? Attack any UN/NATO ally, and the world rains death upon you. Attack us, and even if you survive the counterattack, you'll lose your biggest global customer, and still haven't received the previously mentioned death from above, sponsored by NATO.

It would be much easier for them to say to us "xxxx trade concessions or we nuke japan and south korea, both who you're bound by treaty to defend,"

It's not like they'd be able to complain about us not honoring the treaty afterwards.

shintochick:Brian Ryanberger:You obviously do not understand the Chicom hive mind which is bent on racial domination of the globe by nature's most perfect specimen: the Han Chinese. So perfect they come with a 3 inch dick.

I hope you mean soft otherwise I'm going to be really disappointed with the assimilation.

Based on your username, I think it's safe to infer that you'll be disappointed either way.

/ I'm just assuming they're not totally stoked about Japanese religious practices any more than they are anything else Japanese.

CygnusDarius:Solid State Vittles: They'll never use them. Wanna know why? General Tso's chicken.

Oh China. You terrify us with your army and your brutal government, but your chicken is delectable.

/Also//MAD is a terrible, terrible idea

MAD is the only thing making nuclear war a zero-sum game. It's basic game theory, and it's the only reason we haven't had a global thermonuclear war.

That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if, upon learning of thousands of incoming ICBMs, Obama et. al. decided not to retaliate. I mean, they got first strike, they won. This mentality, which is antithetical to MAD, is why first strike became so important during the cold war.

Want to sleep well tonight? Read about Dead Hand. By all accounts it's still in place and turned on. Even still, it's not fully automatic, someone has to push a button at the Kremlin.

If their nukes are like any other Chinese produced item, they'll break before they can even get any use out of them, because to save costs on parts they replaced the expensive Pu-239 fusion plug with a thin piece of plastic,and wired the whole thing with the thinnest wire they could find.

RobertBruce:It would be much easier for them to say to us "xxxx trade concessions or we nuke japan and south korea, both who you're bound by treaty to defend,"

You're forgetting the relevant parable.

If you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, you own the bank.

We don't owe China a billion, we owe them well over a TRILLION dollars. We own them. If they were insane enough to attack one of our allies, we would cancel that debt, then shut down their economy. How? Most of the Chinese economy is based on exports. Exports sent out on very large, very slow cargo container ships. China doesn't have a deep sea navy to protect those ships. We could take every single cargo ship leaving China with hardly a shot fired. We could stop all cargo ships attempting to enter their waters. We wouldn't even have blow their ports or mine them.

We could completely destroy their economy without firing a singe shot into their country, and they're going to start a shooting war with Japan or Korea? Not farking likely.